Installing Robot/NETWORK 11.0 on a Host or Node System

Before You Begin

Read these instructions completely before you install Robot/NETWORK.

General Considerations

• Because of dependencies between Robot/SCHEDULE and Robot/NETWORK on the same IBM i server, you must update both products at the same time. Allow enough time to complete updates to both products.

  Do not proceed unless you can complete both product updates.

• Before you attempt to install a multi-Host network, create a diagram/blueprint of your network indicating the relationships between your Hosts and Nodes, including Alternate Hosts. Use this diagram to plan your installation.
• Each Host must be at the same release level of Robot/NETWORK.
• The Host must be at Robot/NETWORK 11 before Nodes can be installed. 
• Robot/NETWORK 11 requires all Nodes to be at version 10 or higher.
• You cannot install Robot/NETWORK 11 while your system is in restricted state.
• Robot/NETWORK 11 uses a point-and-click graphical user interface.
• Make sure you have your new Robot/NETWORK security code. If you do not, please contact your Regional Sales Manager.
• If there are any firewalls between your PC and the IBM i system, verify that your IBM i user profile has access to the PC. Also, if you have any firewalls between your IBM i servers, they must allow access to the RBTNETPT profile.
• If you have security software on the IBM i server, verify that RBTNETPT has access.
• Robot/NETWORK does not support mirroring. Do not mirror the RBTNETLIB library, the RBTNETNODE library, the RBTNETPT user profile, or the Robot/NETWORK IFS directory (Help Systems/Robot NETWORK).
• To network the following products, you need the following release/modification levels (or higher) for Robot/NETWORK version 11.0:

Robot/ALERT	R05M00
Robot/AUTOTUNE	R07M19
Robot/CONSOLE	R05M00
Robot/MONITOR	R07M08
Robot/REPORTS	R07M31
Robot/SAVE*	R12M00
Robot/SCHEDULE	R11M00

To display the release and modification levels of these products, type RBTSYSLIB/RSLVER and press Enter.

• If you are installing multiple Help/Systems products at the same time, install Robot/NETWORK last. The Robot/NETWORK installation process only installs Product Master libraries for products already on your system.
• The Robot/NETWORK installation process calls a Help/Systems program to create a Robot/NETWORK user profile, RBTNETPT. This profile uses the group profile, RBTUSER, to communicate between the systems in the network.
• The installation process calls a Help/Systems program to create or change the two Help/Systems user profiles, RBTUSER and RBTADMIN. These profiles own all Robot/NETWORK objects. RBTADMIN has the characteristics of a QSECOFR profile. RBTUSER has attributes like QPGMR. Directory entries are added automatically for the RBTADMIN and RBTUSER profiles.
• The RBTUSER and RBTADMIN profiles were created for the following reasons:
  • They satisfy requests from corporate auditors that our objects be owned differently from IBM objects.
  • They allow us to build a secure product for your environment.
  • They isolate Help/Systems products from IBM changes to the QPGMR or QSECOFR profile defaults.

Note: If you have made any manual changes to the RBTUSER or RBTADMIN user profiles and their authorities, these changes will be lost with any product installation or conversion.

Prerequisite IBM i Software

To use Robot/NETWORK 11, you must have the following software installed on your IBM i server:

* Robot/NETWORK 11 is supported for IBM i V5R4 and higher

Enterprise Monitoring

If you plan to escalate statuses as SNMP traps from your Robot/NETWORK Host system to enterprise monitoring software, you must configure your SNMP trap structure using the MIB that was created for Robot/NETWORK. Refer to the Help/FACTS, How Robot/NETWORK Supports SNMP Traps for complete information.

TCP/IP Considerations

• Before installing Robot/NETWORK, your network must be configured and working using TCP/IP configuration.
• Make sure your startup program starts TCP/IP before it starts the RBTSLEEPER subsystem.

  Note: Robot/NETWORK uses TCP Host Servers and Java to communicate between a Host and a Node. You may have to change your initial startup program to allow more time for these services to start before starting the RBTSLEEPER subsystem. For example, you might need to delay the job several minutes (DLYJOB) between the time the TCP Host Servers start and the time the RBTSLEEPER subsystem is started.

• For successful network communications, Robot/NETWORK 11 requires a fully qualified TCP/IP host name in the format of system_name.domain_name to be in the local directory and/or the DNS server. 

Installing Robot/NETWORK

1. Sign on under a user profile that is a member of the user class *SECOFR and has at least the following special authorities: *ALLOBJ, *SECADM, *JOBCTL, and *IOSYSCFG. The user profile should have Limit capabilities set to *NO.
2. End all Help/Systems products. The install process will stop the RBTSLEEPER subsystem, which is used by other Help/Systems products. Stopping RBTSLEEPER interrupts processing by these products.
3. Make sure that the library QTEMP is in your library list before you start installing.
4. Enter the following command to display the Maintain Help/Systems Products menu:

RBTCDRLIB/HLPCDMENU

5. Select option 1 from the Maintain Help/Systems Products menu to display the Install Products panel, which lists the Help/Systems products not currently installed on your system.

If you would like more information about a product and its features, enter a 3 next to the product name.

6. Option 1 on the Install Products panel displays the Install Instructions panel for the product; this is the same information included in the Before You Begin and After You Are Done sections of these instructions. 
7. When you are ready to start installing, enter a 2 next to Robot/NETWORK on the Install Products panel.

The installation program installs Robot/NETWORK, the RBTSYSLIB library (as needed), and two user profiles (RBTADMIN and RBTUSER). It adds RBTSYSLIB and RBTNETPT to the system portion of your library list if required.

When the installation completes, read the After You Are Done instructions for any additional information or instructions.

After You Are Done

At the end of the installation process, you see a series of messages indicating whether the installation was successful. If you do not see these messages, the installation process will indicate the reason(s) the installation failed.

The Robot/NETWORK Host installation program restores two libraries: RBTNETLIB and RBTNETNODE. The Host installation program also restores the product master library for each of the following products that are installed on the Host system: RBNRBTMST (Robot/SCHEDULE), RBNRBCMST (Robot/CONSOLE), and RBNREPMST (Robot/REPORTS).

The Robot/NETWORK Node installation process restores the RBTNETNODE library.

The installation process restores the following libraries to your system: HSBOOT, RBTCDRLIB, and HSSAVF. The installation process does not remove these libraries in case you are doing multiple installations. You can delete these libraries when you are finished with all of your installations.

Installing the Robot/NETWORK 11 Interface On A PC

After you have finished the IBM i portion of the installation, do the following to install the Robot/NETWORK 11 graphical interface on a PC.

1. Close all Windows applications.
2. Double-click the setupnetwork11.exe file that you downloaded earlier to your PC. When the installation process starts, follow the instructions that display.

Note: If you quit the installation process at any time during the installation, a partial install will have occurred. To resolve this, just restart the installation process from Step 2. All existing files will be replaced and the product will be installed correctly on the PC.

3. When the installation program completes, view the README file to see any last-minute information about the product.

Updated Dec. 31, 2011